{"product_id":"the-idiot-bantam-classic","title":"The Idiot (Bantam Classic)","description":"\u003cp\u003e“My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul.” —Dostoevsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life—abject poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his youngest child—Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing Myshkin’s moral feelings, as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left by human misery to find “man in man.” The Idiot is a quintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complex psyche of the Russian people. “They call me a psychologist,” wrote Dostoevsky. “That is not true. I’m only a realist in the higher sense; that is, I portray all the depths of the human soul.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51344422109408,"sku":"0553213520","price":1650.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9780553213522.jpg?v=1775284611","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/products\/the-idiot-bantam-classic","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}